Wandering Thoughts archives

2010-03-31:	Looking back at a year of our disk-based backup system Remote applications and Gnome settings: an irritation
2010-03-30:	One possible future for Solaris
2010-03-29:	More signs of Oracle's view of Solaris My theory on why our worklogs work for us
2010-03-28:	The evolution of checklists in my work
2010-03-27:	Testing in the face of `popen()`
2010-03-26:	Tkinter sometimes has a busy-wait main loop (more or less)
2010-03-25:	The problem with overly verbose package installation
2010-03-24:	One reason why '`zpool status`' can hang
2010-03-23:	No DSL is 'human-readable' as such
2010-03-22:	Why I exploit Python to shim modules for testing purposes
2010-03-21:	The power of 'I like this' in social applications
2010-03-20:	Web analytics versus `GET` parameter security
2010-03-19:	The problem with general purpose languages as configuration languages
2010-03-17:	How Solaris 10's `mountd` works Another building block of my environment: `rxterm`
2010-03-16:	The Solaris 10 NFS server's caching of filesystem access permissions
2010-03-15:	How to create pointless error reports (and how not to)
2010-03-14:	Space and content
2010-03-13:	A surprising lack: milter clients
2010-03-12:	End results versus what's inside the black box
2010-03-11:	Why the pam_mail PAM module is not my friend
2010-03-10:	Mythology about Unix workstations
2010-03-09:	How not to design an API (in C): the `enum` ordering mistake
2010-03-08:	Exceptions versus error return values
2010-03-07:	Why I don't expect third-party support for OpenSolaris
2010-03-06:	Pushing code changes upstream is hard work
2010-03-05:	PCs are (or can be) Unix workstations
2010-03-04:	You want to do spam forwarding on a separate machine
2010-03-03:	All syndication formats use XML
2010-03-02:	A building block of my environment: `rxexec`

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